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Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

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Justus Möser

The institutions of a country depend in great measure on the nature of its soil and situation. Many of the wants of man are awakened or supplied by these circumstances. To these wants, manners, laws, and religion must shape and accommodate themselves. The division of land, and the rights attached to it, alter with the soil; the laws relating to its produce, with its fertility. The manners of its inhabitants are in various ways modified by its position. The religion of a miner is not the same as the faith of a shepherd, nor is the character of the ploughman so war-like as that of the hunter. The observant legislator follows the direction of all these various circumstances. the knowledge of the natural advantages or defects of a country thus form an essential part of political science and history.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

All philosophy is divided into these three types. Its purpose is to seek out truth, knowledge and certainty.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom... It may be said with some plausibility that there is an abecedarian (meaning alphabetically or rudimentary) ignorance that comes before knowledge, and another doctoral ignorance that comes after knowledge; ignorance that knowledge creates and engenders, just as it undoes and destroys the first.

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William Mountford

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.

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Sterling M. McMurrin, fully Sterling Moss McMurrin

An educated man is one who loves knowledge and will accept no substitutes and whose life is made meaningful through the never-ending process of the cultivation of his total intellectual resources.

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

Knowledge | Wisdom |

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Max Müller, fully Friedrich Max Müller

Philosophy has been called the knowledge of our knowledge of our ignorance, or in the language of Kant, the knowledge of the limits of our knowledge.

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Douglas Meador

Great music is a flame that lights the tapers of man's noblest thoughts and drives shadows from the corridors of his soul.

Man | Music | Soul | Wisdom |

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Felix Mendelssohn, fully Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Music | Wisdom | Words |

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William Fulton Peale

Teaching is selling, getting young people to buy constructive knowledge to enable them to do great things with their lives.

Knowledge | People | Wisdom |

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Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Geometry gives us the sense of equality produced by proportion. It also heals by means of fine music all that is harsh and inharmonious or discordant in the soul, under the influence of rhythm, meter and melody.

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Daniel A. Poling

God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge but still within his love and power.

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Robert Norwood, fully Robert Winkworth Norwood

The true scientist recognizes the fact that scientific knowledge is a narrow thing, it rules out the ecstasy of life. It can only speak of that which it can handle with its hands and see with its eyes.

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William Paley, Archdeacon of Saragossa

In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action and action directed by it.

Action | Knowledge | Language | Wisdom |

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William G. Patten, fully William George Patten, aka Gilbert Patten

Science seeks truth and discovers rightness. Religion seeks righteousness and discovers truth. Both have acquired knowledge of creative and destructive ways, and both point the same way of right living.

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Margaret Percival

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister’s aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms; in the still place of graves.

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Thomas W. Palmer

"Knowledge," says Bacon, "is power"; but mere knowledge is not power; it is only possibility. Action is power; and its highest manifestation is when it is directed by knowledge.

Action | Knowledge | Power | Wisdom |

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John Rossel

Music is the heartbeat of the universe. It reaches into the outer ramparts of eternity where time and space are nonexistent; it touches the stars and is reflected in the beauty of the galaxy. It is exemplified in the mathematical precision found in the largest star and the tiniest molecule. Music is emotional. It touches the heart and creates a response within the listener without his being aware of the technique.

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Francis Quarles

Silence is the highest wisdom of a fool as speech is the greatest trial of a wise man. If thou wouldst be known as wise, let thy words show thee so; if thou doubt thy words, let thy silence feign thee so. It is not a greater point of wisdom to discover knowledge than to hide ignorance.

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